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Cotton Candy

5.6, Sport, 60 ft (18 m),  Avg: 3.3 from 432 votes
FA: unknown
Arkansas > North-Central A… > Horseshoe Canyo… > N Side > N Forty Routes

Description

Long face route with plentiful chickenheads. Perfect beginner route. Color of the rock is gray at start but moves to beautiful orange near up top.

Location

It is located in between Summer Rain and The Controversy.

Protection

bolts.

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Short person beta - start on left and stem up to the jugs.
[Hide Photo] Short person beta - start on left and stem up to the jugs.
Nate enjoying the view at the Cotton Candy anchors, summer 2023.
[Hide Photo] Nate enjoying the view at the Cotton Candy anchors, summer 2023.
Full route (left rope)
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Cotton Candy
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Looking at Summer Rain and Cotton Candy.
[Hide Photo] Looking at Summer Rain and Cotton Candy.
View from the top, near Cotton Candy.
[Hide Photo] View from the top, near Cotton Candy.
View from the bottom of Cotton Candy.
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Chelly on Cotton Candy.
[Hide Photo] Chelly on Cotton Candy.

Comments [Hide ALL Comments]

R. Emerson
  5.6
[Hide Comment] Cotton Candy is a pretty sweet climb for its grade. Lots of big holds on fairly vertical rock. I've rope soloed it to gain access to the anchors of the climbs to the right in order to TR solo them. May 28, 2008
JBroom
anchorage, alaska
 
[Hide Comment] One of the best climbs for the first time climber or new leader anywhere! Jan 18, 2011
Ignacio
Denver, CO
  5.6
[Hide Comment] Very cool option for a first sport lead. May 13, 2011
michaeltarne
 
[Hide Comment] Same as the other first comments, great first lead. Falling on this would suck but I don't think you'd be very likely to. Well bolted, and great chickenheads all the way up. Mar 4, 2012
Patrick Kearns
St. Louis
 
[Hide Comment] great warm up route. pull on amazing chicken heads the whole way up. Apr 17, 2015
Jan Wade-Littrup
 
[Hide Comment] Delightful warm up climb after a long day of driving to get to HCR. I loved every minute of it because outdoor climbing is hard to come by when ya live in Florida. Jun 16, 2019
Brad Burns
Story, WY
  5.6
[Hide Comment] If a genie gave me three wishes, one of them would be to make this 3000' tall and put it in my back yard, that way I could solo it every day like 12 times. Dec 3, 2023